Science needs religion and religion needs science both have equal need of each other.
If you're religious then everything is part of Creation and therefore an element in the grandest of all miracles. Any scientific discovery is therefore an insight into a small part of a grand miracle. Science must therefore be an equal partner with religion. Two wings as it were on a bird. One without the other and the bird won't fly. Science does not invent, it discovers. Religion is more in the realm of invention, not all, but most.
We are born with 'why' running around in our heads, our psyche. We can't help climbing mountains, going to the poles or into space or trying to fathom our existence from sub-atomic to galactic, from beneath our feet to the ends of the universe, infinity and beyond.
Religion and science is a bit like the skeksis and the urRu-Mystics from the Dark Crystal, they are not as useful apart and maybe even dangerous.
Same faith required for both pursuits, one gets dressed up in pseudo holiness and the other in the cloth of academia. 'The world is but a stage' etc
